Willa Cather Quotes
When we look back, the only things we cherish are those which in some way met our original want; the desire which formed in us in early youth, undirected, and of its own accord.
Quotes to Explore
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Was music my talent really? No, I don't think I was particularly talented.
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I'm a mum, so my wardrobe consists of sweaters and jeans. As long as I don't leave the house forgetting my jeans, I count that as a fashion success.
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A victim is a victim is a victim. We should stop setting up standards that say we will have one standard of law enforcement for one group of victims but not for another.
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We need a reasonable price where producers will not start nagging. At a reasonable price, we can invest to produce more oil.
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That you get booed belongs to professional sports.
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You can't be perfect. You can't be the perfect father. You can't be the perfect singer.
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I originally went to school for writing, for non-fiction. I'm specifically a poetry major within literature, but I don't know.
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'Good English' is whatever educated people talk; so that what is good in one place or time would not be so in another.
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It's just a theory really, but I have always thought that your physical surroundings can shape your voice and personality.
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When I write, I get glimpses into future novels.
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Think both big and small. Loving to bake doesn't only mean becoming a baker. It could mean starting a blog, becoming a food photographer, or going into organic chemistry.
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Leadership is intangible, and therefore no weapon ever designed can replace it.
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This is Earth. Isn't it hot?
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We live on the circumference of a hollow circle. We draw the circumference, like spiders, out of ourselves: it is all criticism of criticism.
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We cannot control what emotions or circumstances we will experience next, but we can choose how we will respond to them.
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The race of children possesses magically sagacious powers.
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I have worked hard since my childhood and worked as a labourer. I put my mind and heart into it.
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Unfortunately in sport it's either good or bad. You've got to take the highs and the lows.
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To me, 'rock star' conjures up something like a mystic: someone who sees himself as above other people, someone who has the key to the secret that people want to know.
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Don’t you see? You and he might never cross paths again. Of course, a chance meeting could occur, and I hope it happens. I really do, for your sake. But realistically speaking, you have to see there’s a huge possibility you’ll never be able to meet him again. And even if you do meet, he might already be married to somebody else. He might have two kids. Isn’t that so? And in that case, you may have to live the rest of your life alone, never being joined with the one person you love in all the world. Don’t you find that scary?
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I haven't got a racist bone in my little finger.
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The ability and desire to transform the mundane materials at hand that we both bring into the collaboration well beyond the sum total of the parts - to birth a new baby neither of us could claim single parentage of.
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The players had bad personal relations, and that's what led to this shameful end. My mistake was not throwing five to six of them off the team. They don't even talk with each other, everyone only looks after his own interest. I've never seen such people before.
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When we look back, the only things we cherish are those which in some way met our original want; the desire which formed in us in early youth, undirected, and of its own accord.
